Friday, June 13, 2014

Media
Firestorm as Rick Perry Compares Homosexuality to Alcoholism

By Julio
Severo

Texas Governor
Rick Perry has caused a firestorm by comparing homosexuality to a disorder that
people can avoid like alcoholism at an event in San Francisco.

Rick Perry

According to the
San
Francisco Chronicle, even though most of the event focused on economic
issues, Perry was provocatively asked about the Texas Republican Party’s
approval of platform language allowing Texans to seek voluntary counseling to leave
the homosexual lifestyle. Perry responded to the question by saying that he did
not know whether such so-called “reparative therapy” worked.

The Chronicle
then reported that Perry was asked by the event’s moderator if he considered
homosexuality to be a disorder. Perry responded, “Whether or not you feel
compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to
decide not to do that. I may have the genetic coding that I'm inclined to be an
alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual
issue the same way.”

The Chronicle added
that while the event in famously-liberal San Francisco was packed with
Republicans, there was an audible mumbling immediately after the remark.

Decades ago,
Democrats and other liberals began with “audible mumblings” about views of homosexuality
as abnormal or vice. Today, they are stridently combative against any one
espousing conservative moral stances. Signs to come about future Republicans?

The same
provocative question that was asked from Perry could also have been asked from Vladimir
Putin, the Russian president. Considering that before the Ukrainian crisis the
Western media, especially the U.S. media, was obsessed about putting Russia in
a firestorm for its law banning homosexual propaganda, any negative answer from
Putin about homosexuality is sure to provoke more storms — and “audible
mumblings” from Republicans.

In fact, Dr.
Scott Lively, author of “The Pink Swastika,” has commented that the Ukrainian
crisis, which has been fomented for years by George Soros and neocons, happened
to provoke Russia as a possible answer to Russia taking a stand against homosexual
propaganda in its society.

If even among
Republicans Perry’s soft opposition to homosexuality has caused a “audible
mumbling,” what about if he signed, as Putin did, a law banning homosexual
propaganda in Texas?

His enemies
would need a “Ukrainian crisis” to deflect his anti-homosexuality measures.

“Lucky” are the
Saudi kings, because they can comfortably navigate through the U.S. media and
government and go unchallenged about Saudi Arabia murdering homosexuals. There
are no protests by Democrats and Republicans. There are no sanctions by
Democrats and Republicans. And there are no “audible mumblings” by Democrats
and Republicans.

Besides, the
U.S. Embassy, which has hoisted the homosexual flag in some nations, would never
do it in Saudi Arabia.

What is the
Saudi secret?

Perry and Putin
need to find it, because it is very uncomfortable and dangerous, because of the
U.S. media and government, to oppose homosexual propaganda nowadays, if you are
not a Saudi.

If you are a
Saudi, no U.S. media and U.S. government official will bother you.

What is the
Saudi secret?

Please, tell it
to Perry and Putin.

Yet, even though
he does not have the special exemption the Saudis enjoy, Perry is right:
homosexuality is a vice, as alcoholism is. In fact, the Bible says: “Do you not
know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor
thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Corinthians
6:9-10 ESV)

Men who practice
homosexuality and drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of God.

God said it. God
put both sins in the same category of practices rejected in the kingdom of God.

Who can say that
Perry’s comparison is wrong?

Perry is an evangelical
Christian. I hope he may enact some law banning homosexual propaganda in Texas.

If the U.S. media
and government want to harass his moral stance, he could tell them to hoist a
homosexual flag in the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia. Let them try to save
homosexual Saudis from being murdered in this Islamic nation. Let us then see
the results.

The important
point for comparison is not if homosexuality is a vice as alcoholism, but why
Saudis and other radical Muslims murder homosexuals, and why evangelical
Christians like Perry and Orthodox Christians in Russia do not murder them.

If the U.S.
intends to be the supreme advocate of homosexuality worldwide, why then do the U.S.
media and government chastise evangelical Christians, Catholics and Orthodox
Christians, but spare radical Muslims?